by ashika | Aug 12, 2017 | Education
This is a guest blog post written by Amanda Novotney, a HEF (Himalayan Education Foundation) volunteer who spent a year after college graduation working in the Himalayas with Naari, a women’s self-help group made up of knitters and weavers. Amanda kindly provided the...
by ashika | Jul 29, 2017 | Education
Creating Resilient Families and Communities is the title of the next conference in the Conference Series in India. The one-day conference will take place at IIT-Delhi on December 19, 2017. The conference is co-sponsored by India Development Service (IDS), the Indian...
by ashika | Apr 14, 2017 | Environment, Health Care
Speaker videos from the 2017 Conference in India (International Conference on Environmental Exposure and Preventive Healthcare) are now available. Click on the speaker names below to open each video and view it in your browser. Thanks to Ashish Jain of IPCA for...
by ashika | Mar 31, 2017 | Health Care, Nutrition
As of the end of 2016, the Nutrition and Education Project for children up to 5 years old was being implemented in 11 villages of the Pushprajgarh Block (Anuppur District) in Madhya Pradesh. The project is led by WOTR (Watershed Organisation Trust), an NGO...
by ashika | Mar 18, 2017 | Education, Health Care
Since 1994, GRAVIS, an NGO based in Rajasthan, has been actively working in rural India to improve the health and working conditions of stone miners of Rajasthan and Uttarakhand. Occupational lung diseases like silicosis and tuberculosis are common and often result in...
